Thread Number: 34085
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Just missed a Kirby Classic Omega |
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Post# 369371   3/27/2017 at 23:05 (2,558 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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So I popped by a nearby Goodwill store earlier this evening, the same one where I'd snagged my Electrolux Diamond J a few months ago, and in a part of the store where vacuum cleaners normally don't live, I spotted a nice Regina 3-speed Electric Broom for $10. While I momentarily considered it, I decided I had too many stick vacs and walked away. When I got to the corner where the vacs normally live, I spotted a nice looking Kirby Classic Omega. Unfortunately, somebody else was already looking at it. I remarked to him that it was a nice machine and he asked me a few questions about it that I was able to answer. He was a bit confused by the shakeout bag, so I showed him how to take it off the machine, then for a teachable moment, let him put it back on. I was amazed to see the bag absolutely pristine on the inside, like it had never been used. I took a look at the price tag and it was the same $10 as the Regina. Since the other guy had gotten there first, I was a good sport and walked away as he wheeled his prize toward the checkout. Had I gotten there maybe five minutes earlier, it could have been mine. For a second, I thought about claiming the Regina as a consolation prize but I didn't. Now, the real irony was I have a $10 merchandise credit in my wallet, so neither machine would have cost me anything I hadn't already spent. But I'd just as soon save it and spend it on something I really want.
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Post# 369451 , Reply# 2   3/28/2017 at 22:29 (2,557 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Vacuum prices at thrift stores around here have no rhyme or reason. Sometimes they're outrageous and sometimes they're dirt cheap. You just never know. I guess it's all down to whoever wields the pricing gun when it comes in. This particular store seems to price their vacs cheaper than the other one a few miles away and they also seem to get some nice machines in from time to time, although Kirbys are few and far between.
I would have liked to have had that Omega, simply because it was the first Kirby model I ever saw when the salesman demonstrated it in our living room when I was about nine years old but I can certainly live without it. |